Just spotted a blog post on NYTimes that HP is limiting their cloud public offerings. Where companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM are making their way into investing more into cloud business. HP is heading back from the game.

Just read the news that Microsoft is shutting down it’s oh-NOT-so-famous browser brand. For first I took a deep breath. I can remember my web development days, when I used to manage websites with extra effort to make it compatible with IE. There were so many UI bugs that I fixed and many I produced while working for IE. Everyone hates it, an open secret. Even Microsoft has made mocking campaigns on IE6 to promote the image of IE. But they have realized people have moved on. The irony is companies like IBM are relying on IE by developing only IE compliant web softwares.

IBM and Tech Mahindra will work in partnership to build a platform for the development of cloud based apps for its clients on Bluemix. Bluemix runs on cloud infrastructure combines with the capability of IBM’s middleware software with tools of IBM partner’s echosystem. Bluemix helps developers speed up application deployment for months to minutes.

The most awaited tech event of Google is here. The registration is closing on March 19 at 5PM Pacific Time. Google is going to demonstrate what they prepared for the future. They will unveils their plan for the future. You can check schedule of the conference here. Anyone with Google account can register and Google will select applicants who can purchase one ticket.

Just hit an idea to write a Twitter bot or a meme that will collect Urdu poetry tweets specified by a hashtag stores it in it’s database. And people who will follow that account will get a poetry tweet daily. Why it’s looking interesting to me because I can’t find such account who shared poetry in Urdu script. That’s appealing rather having it in Roman which can be seen in abundance. Will do a quick POC on it, have to see Twitter API after ages since I left exploring it.

In design circles the importance of ORM is too much discussed. And different ORM implementations are compared with respect to their robustness. Last place where I worked, there was no ORM. Every developer was writing it’s JDBC DAO layer. This thing came in debate many times that why not to use an ORM like popular Hibernate. But the decision was not taken company wide and they stick with writing JDBC code.